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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119C-13-FA Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:49-0132 USAF
    Construction Number:10369
    Last Civil Registration:N13743
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119C-13-FA sn 49-0132 U...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-119C-13-FA by Fairchild at Hagerstown, Maryland, USA.

    Circa 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 49-0132.

    7 January 1967

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    From By 1969 to By 1973

    To Aero Union Corporation, Chico Municipal Airport, Chico, CA with new c/r N13743.

    June 1971

    Fire retardant tank and related systems installed.

    Operated as fire service #E12.

    May 1974

    Auxillary jet engine installed.

    From March 1975 to By 1992

    To Hemet Valley Flying Service, Hemet, CA keeping c/r N13743.

    Operated as fire service #81.

    30 March 1982

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR13743 (C-119C, 49-132) issued.

    From By 1987 to By 1992

    Withdrawn from use and placed in open storage at Hemet, CA.

    To US Forest Service.

    1992

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Circa 1992


    Photographer: Unknown

    Markings Applied: 81
    Maintained in a tanker colour scheme.

    August 1994


    Photographer: Han de Ridder
    Notes: scanned slide

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Pima museum, Arizona.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    18 December 2012

    Civil registration, N13743, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
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